Timed for maximum promotional impact in the lead-up to Skyfall, Stevan Riley’s meat-and-potatoes doc about the James Bond franchise has interviews with almost all the 007s: only Sean Connery, whose falling out with producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman is a major part of the story, is a no‑show. Roger Moore graciously concedes that his predecessor was the better Bond, and everyone backs Timothy Dalton as the most underrated, even if Licence to Kill was an unpleasant series nadir.

There’s also the saga here of Kevin McClory, the rival producer who sued Fleming for rights to Thunderball and proved a fly in the ointment for the official Bond team for decades to come. Nothing rises above the level of a decently produced DVD extra, but it’s one you’d happily watch right through.

Jack Perez, the director of Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, gives habitual indie miser Kevin Corrigan a rare lead role as a small-town dropout suspected of murdering enemies from his childhood. Lucy Davis, as his love interest, urgently needs some non-ironic vocal inflections, and the plot sputters along like an old lawnmower. Still, Barry Bostwick’s perfect timing as a slow-on-the-uptake sheriff lifts it from complete doldrums.

The Knot

*

15 cert, 92 min

There are British nuptial romcoms (The Wedding Video, say) where this or that thing raises a laugh, and then there’s The Knot, which leaves you wholly stumped for anything to praise. How did this script get made? Why do we spend most of the couple’s big day hanging around in lavatories? Is it possible to imagine a grimmer or more mirthless experience this side of Michael Haneke’s early works? Pure, gruelling punishment.